Delta Flight Hits Rogue Wi-Fi Hotspot After DEF CON
Someone brought the annual hacker playground right up into the clouds, and Delta is not amused.
Flight DL591 was cruising from Las Vegas to Atlanta when cabin crew spotted an unauthorized Wi-Fi access point broadcasting under the name Delta WiFi Fast, mimicking the airliner's official paid onboard internet service.
The timing could not have been more comedic, as the aircraft was packed with cyber security professionals and ethical hackers returning from the annual DEF CON 34 conference in Nevada. Flight attendants scrambled to warn passengers about the illegitimate connection, while security teams launched a full internal probe into who decided to turn a routine domestic flight into an impromptu rogue hotspot experiment.
Expecting hundreds of bored hackers to sit peacefully in metal tubes without testing local network defenses proves that airline corporate security still believes in fairy tales.
Source: TechCrunch
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